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The Path Of Change
Each day I welcome clients into my office who come to see me for a host of different reasons. Some want to lose weight or kick a habit. Others want to rid themselves of fears and negative feelings that have plagued them for years. Still others are depressed or stuck and feeling really unhappy about the direction their lives have taken.But no matter what reason they come to see me, all of my clients have one thing in common – they have come to the point in their lives where they really want to change. And they have decided to do something about it.
Writing in his book ‘Mans Search for Meaning’, the Auschwitz survivor and psychiatrist Victor Frankl observed: When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
And so the work begins and before too long, change takes place. Yet so often it happens in ways that we may not have anticipated.
You see, it can sometimes take a little while to notice the really positive changes that are taking place within us. This is because real change happens on such a profound level, becoming an integral part of who we are and how we respond. It just feels so natural.
Many times, we notice change only after the event – when we’ve put the phone down and realised that we reacted in an entirely different way, for example, or when we sail smoothly through a situation that would previously have upset, angered or frustrated us. Or maybe it’s only when we’re about to sleep and we realise that we just haven’t felt like snacking or eating compulsively all day.
The simple fact is that true change doesn’t happen simply on an abstract, intellectual level. It happens on an emotional, feeling one. After all, it’s the way we feel that tells us what’s really happening inside us. It’s the way we feel that tells us how we’re really doing.
The changes you can make through hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis are real changes. They are not facades designed to fool someone. Though they can and do certainly influence external factors and things, it is not there that they take place.
Real change is something that you make yourself, within yourself.
Perhaps the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau best summed it up when he said: Things do not change -- we change.
Yes, hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis are really powerful tools that can greatly assist and help you to change, and a good hypnotherapist can truly – and often rapidly -- facilitate this change.
But ultimately, it is you who make the changes in your life and you who deserve the credit.
Until next month, I wish you the very best on your path of change.
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